You Never Know What Will Happen When You Hit Publish
The life history of the ‘publish button’ which has no inventor and carries with it unpredictable results.
Bloggers, Vloggers and Writers all get the opportunity to hit publish on their work. It’s a subtle button you can hit and is often green in color.
It seems like a button that carries enormous baggage that we refuse to ever voice our concerns about. We pretend we are hitting the publish button more than we really are. Ignoring the publish button is an activity that carries no weight or importance.
“It’s not the publish button. What’s the god damn publish button got to do with anything?”
After all these years as a writer, all I know is this: the publish button is a differentiator.
The publish button is a class system we didn’t know we were being sorted into.
The publish button changed me
I was always afraid to hit the publish button. It started out when I was a musician that had hundreds of songs and only a handful that ever saw the light of day. Hitting export to MP3, attaching that song to an email, and sending it off to a record label was the hardest…
